Interior & Architecture Design

This can involve either designing the entire home or just one room for apartments and separate floors — comprising space planning, the choice of materials and finishes, the arrangement of furniture, and styling, all tailored to the way the household actually lives rather than based on a standard template.

Design of interiors for large-format homes and villas, where the issue of scale brings about its own set of challenges, such as having to zone different floors, maintain a consistent material approach over large areas, and co-ordinate the work of the civil, interior, and landscape teams.

The design of the office interior should balance the brand's identity, employee comfort, and the functional layout, with cabins, workstations, and meeting rooms as well as common areas being designed to work just as hard as the business does.

Designing interiors for use in retail stores, showrooms, restaurants, and other commercial spaces, where the interior has to serve two purposes — supporting the brand and withstanding daily traffic.

The architectural design involves structural and layout planning for new constructions or for major renovations, including the preparation of floor plans, elevations, and structural coordination, either before or together with the interior design.

We gain an understanding of the space, the home or the business, the budget, and the timeline; the brief is established before any design work starts.

Space planning and concept design, including the layout, the direction of materials, and the overall design language, are presented for discussion before detailing starts.

This includes detailed drawings, specifications for materials, and a broken-down BOQ, so that the cost is clear before work starts rather than being found during the process.

The execution of the work, covering civil, interior contracting, and finishing, involves routine site visits and regular progress updates until it is completed.

We do both, offering design services for single rooms (such as a bedroom or a living room) as well as for full homes and villas, the extent of the work being determined by what the client really needs.

It depends on the client's requirements. Some clients wish to have design consultancy on its own and then carry out the work via their own contractor, while others request turnkey execution, in which we take responsibility for the entire build. Both of these options can be offered as separate services.

A detailed Bill of Quantities (BOQ) is drawn up during the design stage, listing the materials and the associated costs, so that the budget is clear before execution starts rather than being only roughly estimated and then altered later.

Yes, for those clients who wish to have it, the Vastu principles are incorporated into the space planning and layout at the conceptual stage rather than being adjusted after the design has been completed. For more information on a Vastu-focused approach, see our Astro-Vastu Consultancy.